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1 T1IK HKK: OMAHA, T I'KSDA V, .NOVKMUKi: jiUfi. r. i 5 a & 'i t : ft s: f? f: I n r; er A IK ITALYHAS NO FACTS REGARDING AHCONA Ambaisador Page Sayi Hit Confer ence! with the Foreign Office Are Fruitiest. MAT ASK BERLIN OH VIENNA WASHINGTON, Not. 18. Ambas end or Thomas Nelson rage at Rome cables that his conferences at tbe Italian foreign of fire thus tar have failed to develop the detalla or facts concerning the sinking of the Italian liner, An con a. The Italian government, according ,. to Mr. Page, Is having considerable difficult establishing just what oc cnrred when the vessel went down Secretary Lansing has bfn. waiting to learn whether It was a Ontnu or Aus trian submarine which destroyed the An eona, and therefor has not Instructed cither Ambaaaador Oerard or Atnbetmdor ranfleld to call at the Berlin and Vienna foreign office, respectively, to ask for Information. it appeared, however, today, that In order to obtain officially auch Informa tion aa la In the possession of the tierman and Austrian fe-overnmenta, auch Instruc tions might be sent. FVeaeh Heoort of Reirae. The mott connected offlnlnl narrative of the rescue of kurvtvors Troro the torpe doed Italian liner, Anoona, yet to reach the State department, arrived today by cable from Ambassador Sharp at Paris, , who transmitted telegrams' to the French minister of marine from the prefect at IMserta.' They follow: "November 7 One hundred shipwrecked persons, of whom six are wounded, from Aneona, topedoed Sunday noon, brought to Blurt. "November Two torpedo boats this evening brought In twenty-one survivors and four bodies to Blserta. Survivors are ICS out of iSO, and are being cared for at the Sid! Adballah hospital. The sub marine which aank the Anoona, according to concordant Information received by me, was from SO to 100 meters long and armed with two fairly large guns for ward, and two smaller guns aft. "November t A boat from the Aneona . arrived this morning at Cape Bon with t Sweety-eight persons, bringing total sur vivors up to 187. Of ths HI cared for at the Sldl Adballah hospital Is an Amerl- can woman, one Is a Ruse an, sixteen are Greeks and the balance Italians. "November Two of the Anoona boats have Just arrived, one at Zembra with twenty-eight survivors, and the other at Tunis with thirty-seven others. Total survivors. J3X" This was all the official Information in the hands of the French government Edwin Kemp, American consul at Mar : allies, has instructions to proceed to Blserta, If he finds it necessary, to get Information. CHUECHILL SAYS KITCHENER MADE ANTWERP PLAN (Continued from f age One.) . eminent,". Mr. .Ctiurohlll continued, 'but that they had not yet reached ftie point where definite offers or promises could be made to the Belgian government, and that the same afternoon the Belgian gov ernment had telegraphed their decision to evacuate the city with the field army end practically abandon the defense. The British rovernment was extremely dis tressed by this decision, ss it seemed i everything was going to be thrown away for the sake of three or four days of con tinued resistance. "I offered to so to Antwerp to report on the situation and the offer waa ac cepted. I crossed immediately and the next day after consultation with the Bel ' glan government and British staff offi cers at Antwerp I proposed telegraphi cally that the Belgians should continue resistance and that the British and French governments should say within three daya whether or not they could send a relieving force." Labor Federation Adjourns to Tuesday CAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 1&.-Be ause the resolutions committee of the Amer ican Federation of lbor requested more time to consider the questl ns In hand, a recess waa taken today unill tomorrow, after a brief session of the federation. NO ARMY OF UNEMPLOYED IN CHICAGO THIS YEAR CHICAGO, Nov. 16. There la no "army of the unemployed" In Chicago th- year, according to the Pally News today. Tbe first blast of winter, which sent the mercury down to tt last night, was the taut. For years this has been tbe signal for a horde of vagrants to appear upon the streets begging or seeking em ployment, and, at night, to crowd the cheap lodging houses and lockups. These places were crowded last night, but today there were few of the lodgers about and it , was aaid that they were working. DEATH RECORD f T-fi r Joaa W. MeXabb. John W. McNabb, a former member of the First Nebraska cavalry, and a mera ber of the Oeorge A. Custer post of the Orand Army ot the IlepuMlc. died at hie home In Los Angeles, Cel., November 10 and was burled there. Ha lived for many years In Omaha, and waa about S years ot age. HYMENEAL Stevens- ta alay. Miss Diana Stanley, daughter of Mitchell Stanley, and Peter Btevena, both of Indianapolis, Ind., were married by Rev. Charles W. Bavidge at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Boss. Sit North Twenty-fourth. Sunday afternoon. I lpartmeat Order. WASHINGTON. Nov. . (Special Tele gram. I isebruka pensions k ranted: CklUerlne M. rruadtoue. ule Clly, III; r llrnbeLO i. fc'rrsuson. Turk, Mary Id. hlroy Natb, -ard, Hi Trt-weekly rural mail service has been ordered esiablifthcd on KeOruaiy 1 at fcioik Mill, lrutil-k couuty, Nebraska; Irngih ot route, unrty-tiirva uillxa. Oacar Stewart has b-en tern appointed ruml letter cairrtcr at Ounawa, la. The comptroller of the curreury has rwnvwl application of the following I kiiks to cuuttrt Into national banks iu fcxj.itn lakota: Aheater rltate bauk. Al-rt-ett-r. Into the Alcusier Nktiouitl tank. kl'ital, l"Orj, Itauk of Philip Oito Hie t-iixt NkUuual btuik ct PUuip, Tsi'llsL ONE OF THE FRENCH "BLUE DEVILS" By their queer costumes some of the French infantrymen at the front have earned the sobriquet of "Blue Devils." As a result of discarding rifles and bayonets and equipping themselves instead in steel helmets, goggles, anti-gas masks, revolvers and formidable knives, the modern French soldier resembles a movie highwayman. 4k A . rl ft ' f Si WW jLf e&Wr . H i 1 ft, ANTI-TRUST LAW IS TO BEAT WAR PLOTS Government Considers Tiling that Meant to Prosecute Violators of Neutrality. ' TUBUS TO AN OLD STANDBY WASHINGTON, Not. 15. Handi capped by the lack ot specific laws to protect the nation's neutrality, the Department ot Jiutlce has turned t oone ot its old stand by s and is In vestigating alleged war plots with a view to instituting criminal proceed ings under the Sherman anti-trust act. The inquiry-It was learned to night is directed particularly at plots supposed to have been formed in connection with efforts ot pro-Ger man and pro-Austrian sympathisers to cause strikes in munition plants in the United States. The depart ment's theory is that It there Is a conspiracy to Interfere with the man ufacture ot munitions It is a con spiracy in restraint ot interstate and foreign commerce. Publication of notices In foreign lan guage newspapers calling on subjects of Austria and Oennany to quit work in munition plants la said to have been one of many methods employed of causing strikes and disrupting the organisations of plants making war munitions for the allies. Tbe Investigation has not progressed fsr enough to enable officials to tell whether Indictments can be obtained or to develope who is at the head of the conspiracy, It one extots. Russians Defeated in Galicia, Says the Berlin War Office BERLIN'. Nov. 16. (By Wireless to Sayvtlle.) A defeat of the Russians In Galicia la announced today by the war office which says that the troops of General von LJnslngen drove back the Ruasians from the west bank of the Styr river. The entire west bank has now been cleared. Russian attacks near Buior gon, east of Vllna. were repulsed. On the western front ths Germans stormed, a French trench 300 yards long northeast of Bourle. MRS. HUNTINGTON WILSON GRANTED DIVORCE AT RENO RENO,' Nov. 15. A decree of divorce, on the ground of cruelty, has been granted by the district court here to Lucy James Wilson from Huntington Wilson. Wilson was saslstsnt secretary of state under Philander C. Knox, during the Taft administration. The decree waa granted on grounds of cruelty. Wilson brought the suit alleging desertion,' but the court denied him relief and granted me oecre io ine wife, woo pel up a cross complaint, alleging mental cruelty extending over a period of several years, She was allowed to resume her enaiden name. Lucy. Wart ham Jamea. , KATY SUBSIDIARY IS SOLD TO BONDHOLDERS NEW ORLKANH, Nov. 16. The New Orleans, Texas 4c Mexico railroad, a sub sidiary of tbe Bt. Louis A Ban Francisco system, was sold at publl auction here HI I j U I i ear ' 1 lja iVAr.yy,. -tw " ti today by order of Judge Rufus Foster of the federal dlstriot court, to Walter U Taylor, representing the bondholders, for $8,000,000. ' - Schmidt Defense is f Trying to Prove It Was Gas Explosion i LOS ANGELES. Cat. Nov. IS. When ' the trial of Matthew A, flahmldt, obanged with murder In connection with the blow- i uig up of the Times building five years ago. was resumed today, attorneys for A a r. id " v 11 - - j.i . . : . 't i fc.J .a' tk:w ."Mr! 1 -0 . . , .w. .j: j 6.,. tho defense continued questioning wit- Tmu Doulu vioiaie wim impunity, ne nesses along a line apparently designed tor tha Uve of Poraons In no way to show that gas or printers Ink might Participants In a war Is among those fun have had something to do with the ex- damenUl rules of humanity and lnterna ploslon which killed twenty men. I l,onal Uw- Tnl it" "Pn bel- John Beckwith. a newsDacwr reoorter. "Kerents the strlot obligation to do all on duty at oentral police station, leas than , 100 yards from the Times building, on the night of October 1. 1810. was the first ! witness. Under cross-examination he was asked: "Were the men vou saw iiimn from the windows covered with inkT' "No." Beckwlt1, answering another question. said the men he saw coming from the basement of the flaming building were epatto4 with printers' Ink. . A witness a the stand last week tes tified that ten barrels of Ink bad been stored In the pressroom ln the basement near the point whe.-e the prosecution as serts a dynamite bomb was placed by James B. McNamara, who confessed and is now serving a life term In prison. Beckwith, la direct testimony said he heard the explosion, rushed Into the street r-Tld .w dust rising from the rear of the structure, i wwsavai s sows aasa aa waaa ttm a vmjm vt uiv fjva aaxvwtag wa Immediately afterward flame, burst from the windows of the Times composing room on ths second floor. Beckwith ran into the police station to call up his city n m.wA MHI. . A l.t.. k. k- . n., ...a v.. building was la flemea, Beckwith al J" 'r contrary to ths acts of ere aald he saw four men In the uniform ot lotion end the recognlaed prinotpt of United B tales sailors rip aa awning from a nearby store front and use the canvas as a Ufa net, into which a number of Times employes leaped from the second and third f loora Bchmldt's attorneys asked Beckwith If the flames burst from all the windows of the Times building simultaneously. "They seemid to spread from window to window," was Beckwllh's reply. EIGHT JHOIMD SERBS CAPTURED (Continued from Pase Ona taeen Vales and Kabune pass, supported by powerful artillery. The Serbs were hard pressed and for a time It seemed as though they must give way, which would have meant the lose, not only of the army, but of ktonaatlr. The sltua'.lon was unchanged, however, by the tactics adopted by the Serbian commander. Colonel Vasal:. He permitted the Bulgarians to' advance aa far as the Ferllpe road and then fell upon them with all his fbrces, smashing through their first and second lines with the bayonet and driving the Bulgarians be- i yond Klotalak. On the following days the Bulgarians 1 attempted to recapture the lost pos'tions. but the Serbians, though poorly supplied with food and munitions, were able to hold them back. Bslgs'lsss HepaUe4 at C'erea. j PARIS. Nov. IS. The French war office I this aftemoca gave out a report on the progress ot hostilities in the east, which "During the day ot November It we made progress to the north of Kabrovo, in tbe direction of Koaturlno. Bulgarian troops delivered a violent attack along the entire front of the left bank of the Ktver Ccrna. They were drlvaa wtah heavy loaeea." ITALY DENOUNCES . ANCONA SINKING Issues Protest to All Neutral Gov ernments Against Destruc tion of Liner. ASSERTS NO WAENTNO GIVEN eSBBasasBBBwa WASHINGTON, Nov. 15. A pro test against the sinking ot the Ital ian liner Aneona by a submarine was handed to Secretary Lansing today by the Italian ambassador, Count V. Macchi Dl Cellere. The protest was in the form of a denouncement cabled from Rome de claring that, without warning or without observing any formalities accompanying the right of search, the submarine opened fire upon "the unarmed passenger liner," recklessly shelling the wireless apparatus, the decks and lifeboats and killing and wounding many passengers. leaned to All Ntatnua. The denouncement has been pre sented to the neutrals. It stated that many passengers swimming in the sea approached the sbumarlne in the hope of rescue, but were driven off with "Jeers' It concludes as fol lows: "The royal government regards It as a duty to denounce solemnly to all nations the circumstances de scribed above. Their sentiments ot justice and humanity will cause them without doubt to Judge as it deserves the conduct of an enemy which is ob viously contrary to the dictates of civilization and the recognised prin ciples of International law." It is not stated' In the denounce ment whether the submarine which sank the Aneona waa an Austrian or German. It was presumed by the of ficials of the State department that the Italian government had not definitely cleared up that point.' Teat of Statement. "The government of the United States Is doubtless aware of the ' particulars reported by tha press la connection with the outrage perpetrated by the enemy upon Italian shipping on November T. "More tha nonoe the destruction of Italian merchantmen had taken place under circumstances which permitted no other explanation than that there was behind the procedure a ruthless purpose to use brutish force against private property of Innocent persona. Nonoom batant pamengers and crews already have been the victims of these methods, but never has there been an Instance of such unparalleled atrocities as in the case of the sinking of the Aneona. "The unarmed liner, en route to New York, was steaming westward between the coasts of Sard aula and Tunis, car rying passenger and cargo destined for America. Not Carrrlaar Araa. . "It waa ont of the question that the vessel . could have been suspected ot j carrying arms or contraband or persona the service of any of the belligerents, fact none of the circumstances al leged In other cases In an attempt to lu"tlfV actions described by their authors m neesuy or war or aa a reprisal wss ,n c"8 vl cona. ero are principles mat no siaio ounl lo T' private mai- ln tnelr Pwer ,n circumstance to P"eci me uves or sucn passengers, "Without any warning whatsoever. runout ooserving any or me lorraaiiues accompanying tne ngnt or searcn, me submarine encountered by the Aneona ln the aforementioned circumstances, opened fire upon the unarmed passenger liner, ruthlessly shelling not only the wireless apparatus, sides and decks of the ship while it was at a stop, but even the life boats In which the terrorised wer seeking refuge. v Msar KtUedL "Many of tbe passengers were killed outright or wounded. Bom who ap proached the submarine ln the hope of rescue were, driven off with Jeers. As a " .TT" " T": than (09 men. women and children lost thetr Uvea. . - ?' ra' " duty to denounce solemnly to all nations the ctrcumetancee described above, Tbetr sentiments of Just'ce and humanity will cause them without doubt to Judge, as It deserves, the conduct of an enemy which International law." M ELLEN TAKES BLAME FOR ACQUIRING TROLLEY LINES NEW YORK, Nov. 16. Charles A liellen, former president of the New York, New Haven Hartford railroad, took upon himself today the responsibility for the New Haven's acquiring trolley lines In New England which the govern ment in ths trial of the eleven former directors of the road charree was a part ot the New Haven's alleged plan to monopolise commerce. Mr. Mellen testlflsd that In IBM he urged on the board the necessity of a comprehensive plan of acquisition of trol ley properties or else drop the lines it had already acquired. Small Articles of Fine Leathers Despite the fact that the war has hindered the Importation of fine leather goods, we have been able to secure a beautiful stock of Manicure Seta, Dressing Cases, Collar Hags, ihoUKraia Oases, Tourist Writing Case Fitted Uajra, Tourist Toilet Kits, and many other things of beauty aud utility, any one of which would make a very practical gift. We are Omaha agents for the Hartinan Wardrobe Trunks. Freling & Steinle Omaha's Bee Baggage Bnilders. 1803 Farnam St. NOTED NEGRO EDUCATOR OF TUSKEGEE IS DEAD. t : ' W :'::-y ; -:- ) (cwM, A : w:x?. l BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. Zeppelin Shot Down j Near Grodno, Russia LONDON, Nov. 15. The Central News correspondent at The Hague says in formation has been received there from Frankfort that a Zeppelin has landed near Grodno', Russia, after being dam- ; aged badly by Russian artillery. The message says the dirigible waa destroyed ln greater part by fire after the crew waa rescued. "Hlarh I.I Tin a" Club Topic. M1NDEN, Neb., Nov. 15. (Special.) The Ladles' club of Mlnden met at the home of Mrs. W. E. McBaln. The sub ject for discussion was the "High Cost of Living." To Get Rid of Wrinkles and Bad Complexions It Is more important now than during the period of prbfuse perspiration, to keep the pores clean. All cosmetics clog the pores. In cool weather this Interferes greatly with elimination of waste mate rial, Injuring instead of aiding the com plexion. Ordinary rnorcollsed wax serves al) the purposes of creams, powders and rouges, giving far better results. It actu ally peels off an offensive skin, at the same time unclogglng the pores. Minute particles of scarf skin come off day by day, causing not the least pain or dis comfort. Gradually the healthy, younger akin beneath peeps out, and in leas than a fortnight you have a lovelier complexion thnn vou ever dreamed of acquiring. Mer oollzed wax, obtainable at any drug store, la m proud on nluhily like cold cream, ana washed off mornings. 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